St Georges Church of England Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. School.

St Georges Church of England Primary School

WRENN ID
over-chalk-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 May 1976
Type
School
Address
St Georges Church of England Primary School, School Street
OS grid reference
SD 203 688
Coordinates
54.10895, -3.21938
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St George's Church of England Primary School is a school built in 1849 for the Furness Railway Company. It is constructed from red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a graduated slate roof. The building is single-storey and has a layout of three bays, three bays, one bay, and one bay; the first three bays and the seventh bay project as gables, with the entrance located on the right return and a gabled wing at the rear. The corners are accentuated with rock-faced quoins.

The central recess contains three square-headed windows fitted with later casements, alongside a blind three-light mullioned window in a half-dormer. The left gable features projecting sills and quoined reveals for three pointed-arched windows, also with later casements, the central window being larger. This gable is adorned with shaped kneelers and moulded gable copings. The narrower right gable has a Tudor-arched window, matching kneelers and copings, along with a trefoil in a corbelled base intended for a bell turret. There is also a Tudor-arched window in the end bay on the right side.

On the right return, an altered doorway has a concrete lintel beneath the original Tudor arch, and the gable is coped with a terracotta cross. A link block set back on the right connects the school to No. 2 Salthouse Road. This school was built for the children of Furness Railway employees and was part of the early development of the new town centered around the railway terminus in St George's Square.

Local climate

St Georges Church of England Primary School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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